After upgrading a bunch of packages, my system now sets the permissions of /dev/null to 0660, which prevents non-root users from using it. This causes logins on the console to complain, and when logging in via KDM, KDE hangs while "initializing system services," while xrdb hogs the CPU. The problem can be temporarily fixed by chmod a+rw /dev/null, but /dev/null's permissions revert to 0660 on the next reboot. Googling reveals an IRC log of someone who had this same problem and fixed it with different versions of packages, I'll be trying that soon. There seem to be other possibly related problems that aren't fixed by fixing /dev/null permissions, but that might be related to permissions on /dev. xterm and alsamixer works only as root, and otherwise say permission denied. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. chmod a+rw /dev/null # ensure that the permissions are correct 2. reboot Actual Results: note that /dev/null is now only ug+rw and xterm and alsamixer don't work Expected Results: /dev/null shoud be a+rw (0666), xterms and alsamixer should work eggbert tom # emerge -pv baselayout udev kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4 -bootstrap -build -static +unico de 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-056 (-selinux) -static 0 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-3.4.1 -accessibility 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB eggbert tom # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r 1, 2.6.11-cko2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-cko2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 17 2005, 11:29:55)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.5, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="--pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share /config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/shar e/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="--pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib acpi aim alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdparanoi a cdr cjk crypt cups curl dvd dvdr encode esd fam flac font-server foomatic foom aticdb fortran gcj gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java joystick jp2 jpeg junit kde kerberos ladcca libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg multilib my sql mythtv ncurses nls nptl nvidia offensive ogg openal opengl oss pam perl png postgres ppds python qt readline rtc ruby samba sdl server slang speex spell ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userloca les v4l v4l2 vorbis wxwindows xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xv x vid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLA Y
I just upgraded to udev-060, now the problems are gone. General bugzilla usage question - am I supposed to mark this as closed then?
I'll close it, thanks.
